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Claims to land/rubble in case of an earthquake?


By suman, Section Ask Questions
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 01:26:00 AM EST

Hi All...

I live in a builder floor in a locality built by Unitech and I have the following question to ask you all wise men. Say there is an earthquake and the houses in the locality are razed to the ground, what kind of ownership stake does a normal floor/house owner have to the land/rubble that now remains?

This also holds for multi storey complexes. Say an earthquake brings a complex like Atlantis or Uniworld City [no offence meant to residents of these complexes ;)] for example, to the ground, what claims do the owners have against the land mass which now remains?

I am assuming that the concerned party is lucky to survive and hence stake the claim or it is their heir apparent.

This is a fair possibility considering Gurgaon lies in a zone of high seismic activity.

How many people have insured their homes against calamities like these? When I surveyed a group of people casually I didn't find anyone who had done that. So please answer the question assuming that the property wasn't insured etc etc.

Thanks in advance for all the insights!
suman...

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Insurance (none / 0) (#3)
by Hulk Hogan on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 01:34:33 PM EST

I do not know about insurance in India, but Insurance in North America can be explained in this situation. To start with, earthquake coverage is difficult to get, but it is not impossible. In case of a condominium, the outside building is covered by the maintenance charges that each condominium owner pays. These maintenance charges also include common charges like corridor lights, swimming pool charges or parking maintenance etc. Once covered for the named peril, earthquake, and for replacement cost- the insurance company will remove all 'mulba' and re-build the building to replace the existing building. The replacement cost means, the building will be rebuilt irrespective of the construction cost. Each unit owner, in addition, carries insurance for inside contents for their own units. For inside contents, each condominium owner carries their own additional insurance in addition to the outside building insurance carried by the maintenance agency. Inside contents should also be replacement cost coverage, and must carry earthquake insurance in this senerio.





insurance against Earthquake damages? (none / 0) (#2)
by nsoni on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 06:21:48 AM EST

Has anyone already insured the flat in high rise buildings against natural disasters like Earthquake etc.?
I heard from someone that only big/good insurance companies provide such insurances(small ins. companies usually run away from such insurances either before or during the time of claims)? Even if some provide then its very costly.
Does anyone have detailed information on how much it costs and which companies provide this?

Regards






In the event of an Earthquake.. (none / 0) (#1)
by sameerdass on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 05:00:43 AM EST

Just wanted to add my two cents to this scenario..
When I insured my house (which is an independent house) the insurance company assessed the value as the value of the construction (@ 800 Rs / sq feet and then based on 2500 sq ft, the assessed value was only Rs 20,00,000 ) same is the case with apartaments - they will only insure the constructed structure. Which means that for a flat which an enduser buys at 70,00,000 , the insurance company will only insure for 20,00,000.
The land belongs to the builder and the residents cannot stake any claim to the land unless the builder has tranferred the land to the society (which till date has not happened in any of the DLF apartments).
Apart from all these aspects, there is the vital question of a person's wellbeing in case of a earthquake - say even of 6 magnitude. For a building of 2 storeys, the horizotal sway will be quite severe and will make all the lifts non-operational (also not advisable to take lifts in earthquake). Now considering an average healthy person, it will take at least 4 seconds (at fast speed) per floor to come down the building - which means that for people staying e.g. on 10th floor - 40 seconds and for people staying on 20th floor - 80 seconds - and these times are considering that the stairs are actually empty - which will be far from the case when an actual earthquake happens - most of the these buildings have very narrow staircases which will get totally blocked by people. Actual times take would be more than 80 seconds for 10th floor and 160 seconds for 20th floor..  which may just be too long in case of a severe earthquake..
So dear friends, please consider this aspect 10 times before you buy a flat on a high floor.
Actually this is the reason why in Delhi and neighbouring areas, higher flats are cheaper, whereas in cities like Mumbai (which are not in Earthquake prone zones), Higher flats are more expensive.
That's all I wanted to add.






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